Student Services and Amenities Fees (SSAF)
SSAF revenue is allocated to five (5) program areas that align with UOW strategic priorities, UOW SSAF spending priorities and student priorities.
Additionally, revenue is allocated to regional campuses, reflecting that collected at the campuses and aligned with the strategic program areas.
A whole of institution approach that successfully connects students to career, enterprise and workplace learning strategies, across each of UOW’s faculties and campuses.
Provide students with programs, workshops and resources that support academic learning.
Provide an environment that enhances the student experience via support of social and co-curricular activities across each of UOW’s on-shore campuses.
Engagement and campus events may include:
Addressing the growing need for creative, flexible and interactive informal learning spaces for students to study and collaborate.
A year-long program, that will give students the best chance of success in an increasingly uncertain labour market, uses the evidence based UOW Career Development Learning Framework (CDLF) developed and piloted in 2019/2020.
This program of curated material tailored for final year students includes:
The suite of services provides CDL opportunities scaffolded for students dependent upon their level of skills and capabilities. Opportunities include:
Learnings for students about entrepreneurial thinking and tools – specifically the skill of pitching an idea. We are using a format that allows for maximum creativity and an ability for any student to develop confidence in developing presentation skills around any idea. It has proven a very effective method of boosting self-confidence and also the critical thinking skills about what makes for a good idea – or a really bad one – that can still be pitched to be as compelling as possible.
The light-hearted approach has proven to be a very engaging approach to teach these critical job skills and also life skills. This is supported in the feedback from previous programs.
Pitch X also provides an opportunity to learn more about the iAccelerate program that UOW offers to students and getting involved in programs and potentially with start-up companies that are resident in the program and getting inspired to do their own start- up. We have seen students return to startup a company after this experience.
Provide student support advisors at each regional campus location (Bega, Batemans Bay, Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands), to provide access to student welfare support and advice on ‘reasonable adjustments’ for students studying with a disability.
Woolyungah Indigenous Centre will provide meals/food vouchers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in need of support.
Provide emergency and crisis housing assistance to students in emergency situations who have minimal or no access to accommodation, food or other living provisions (such as travel/Opal Cards). This may be due to unlivable or potentially threatening situations, or following a critical incident. Student are eligible based on set criteria and are issued with general living provisions (eg toiletries) assistance with emergency accommodation.
Provides students with discounts to membership to UOW PULSE premier fitness, aquatic and sporting facilities including two health clubs (Wollongong and Innovation Campus), outdoor 50m heated pool and expansive indoor and outdoor sport and recreation facilities.
The Safe and Respectful Communities team is responsible for leading the University’s work to prevent sexual assault and harassment from occurring on our campuses, and for providing coordinated response and support if it does happen.
The Student Advocacy Service (SAS) is a free, confidential and independent service for all UOW students. The SAS provides advocacy and referral for a range of academic, procedural and administrative issues.
The Play Free Sport program is an opportunity for UOW students to participate in sporting activities without any upfront costs. The program consists of 2 x 2 hour slots throughout the week whereby students will be able to participate in a range of team sports such as:
UOW PULSE promotes, supports and oversees students involvement in representative sport across the following platforms:
Program reduces the financial burden on students who represent UOW in the sporting arena.
Program will deliver accommodation related support and services to all UOW SWS and CBD students with the focus on newly arriving international students.
Provides services that enhance student welfare and safety. The program will deliver the following services for students:
A series of events, activities and workshops delivered by UniLife to help students master the life/study balance. In addition, students have ready access to wellness resources throughout the year.
Program will assist students to develop a foundation that will equip and empower them to make informed decisions and confidently navigate UOW. Underpinned by a student-staff partnership model, this program will provide a range of peer to peer services and program to enhance students’ skills for study. Specifically, this project will:
Deliver a students as partners project to take a design thinking approach in accessing and developing digital capabilities for students so they gain better outcomes in their study to better prepare them for the digital workplace.
Sessional calling reaches student in all Faculties and all Australian Campuses, delivering a targeting transition to on boarding and study support, for all students enrolled in on-shore campuses who are commencing studies at UOW.
Delivers campus based events and activities for student enrolled at UOW’s Sydney CBD campus.
A student led program that provides an opportunity for UOW students to develop their speaking skills in a foreign language, make friends and learn first-hand experience about a foreign culture without having to travel abroad.
Delivers campus based events and activities for students enrolled at UOW’s South Western Sydney – Liverpool campus.
Careers, employability and entrepreneurship
Graduate Career Development & Employability (GCDE), ‘hub and spokes’ and ‘cohort focussed’ model, which focuses on practices tailored to the needs of specific student cohorts and is designed to ensure high quality, transformational resources, programs and services.
Careers consultants are embedded within faculties to successfully connect students to career, enterprise and workplace learning strategies available across UOW.
Disability liaison, regional campuses
Indigenous cultural identity health and wellbeing
Financial clinic
Safe and Respectful Communities
Triage, and sexual assault and sexual harassment support specialist
Digital literacy is about more than using apps, social media or devices. It’s a framework for understanding the digital and connected world. The program provides self-paced learning resources for student via the Learning Co-op.
Campus engagement (Innovation Campus, Sydney CBD & UOW South Western Sydney)
Postgraduate & mature age orientation
Regional campuses engagement fund
UOWx - co-curricular learning opportunities
Health and wellbeing activities
Student association/Student representatives administration assistant
Student representation support
Southern Sydney campus engagement fund
No projects for 2020.